Historian friends: I have an honors students writing a thesis about needlework samplers by Indigenous girls at mission school in the 1830s. I don't know much about the scholarship on boarding and mission schools in this early period (other than Snyder and Demos). Any thoughts?

Me: My mood? Why do you ask? Them (shouting): You're gonna get hearing damage running those speakers at 100%

Link.

Good morning, Bluesky! Do what you want to do.

"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen." Louis D. Brandeis, who died on this day in 1941

AI at its peak

Everything is too expensive and you can be kidnapped off the streets or shot by a bigot at any moment; you can't go to the doctor or get a vaccine or read certain books or learn history or speak a language other than English but hey at least a computer will drink a lake to talk to your kid for you

We don't have "civil discourse" about people's right to exist. We don't have "civil discourse" about people's right to exist. We don't have "civil discourse" about people's right to exist. We don't have "civil discourse" about people's right to exist. This isn't difficult, Jay.

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

I get that nobody wants to be the first to arrest rights-violating federal officers, but the suspense is really getting to me.

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Catch up, Chris. "Generative AI" is faking everything, and what it does do, it does so badly it replaces absolutely nothing. It only threatens people's jobs and competence. And a lot of the tech economy, which might take the rest of us with it. You were there for the dot com bubble, weren't you?

Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

The fundamental weakness of “meritocratic” parties is that they self-select for good students who live to please authority figures, making them incredibly ineffective opposition to authoritarian systems.

I had a great time reviewing this fantastic book by @mateojarquin.bsky.social for the @h-diplo.bsky.social roundtable! networks.h-net.org/group/discus.... I also ended up with an extra copy of his book and will send it for free to one lucky person who reposts this post! 🗃️ #history #freebook

Yo, the Albigensian Crusade was totally a land grab by the French crown.

Random lithograph image of the day (1858).

19th century name of the day: Hackaliah Brown.

We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.

They announced this back in June and I was kind of hoping he'd forgotten about it. He may not have any authority to do this but only Congress can actually stop him. Oh well.

Noted without comment.

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Riddle me this: we can afford a basketball team but not statewide lunch for kids?

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Challenge accepted.

New sculpture on the Freedom Trail by Harmonia Rosales commemorates 219 known people who, we now know, were enslaved by members and ministers of King's Chapel (founded 1686). Dedicated today on the corner of Tremont & School Streets. @universalhub.com

“the relative calm of the 1980s and 1990s”

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Post cats, not takes.

A student in our MSc is doing a project titled "Reimagining Reference Management Tools as Living Knowledge Management Systems". I know many of my followers here use Mendeley, Zotero, etc. Please help her with her survey? cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Well that was an exercise in frustration.

Further proof that cultural context means that good translation can't all be done automatically.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

2/2 However, the words of a certain master must be repeated every time we discuss LLMs: "the ability to speak does not make one intelligent".

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

“…the longor you keep my Child from me the longor you will have to burn in hell and the qwicer youll get their…” Spotswood Rice, a Black soldier in the US Army, to a Missouri woman who held his daughter in slavery, #otd 1864

you actually cannot drive in the median at all i don't think? the median is the hidey-hole, it is not the super special princesses lane for geniuses who figured out a hack for not waiting their turn to change lanes properly

People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.

Happy Labor Day! This holiday was established in 1894 to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the contributions of working people. Celebrate with us with some thematic reading, pictured below.

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

Worth considering. Only without the internet, I wouldn't have watched J6 live via the rioters' own coverage, and wouldn't have seen Babbitt choose to go through a barricaded doorway guarded by someone with a gun. So mixed feelings on this except: no military honors for attacking Congress.

What does this mean as a self-employed person? It means I don't mind not being able to go to the grocery store or the bank for a few days.

Hmm, that sounds like a fun project. 😁